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created November 13, 2024

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Maybe DeSantis could take 10% of Disney to recoup the loss.

1/9/2025, 1:32:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought he simply took a lot of money from the Victoria Secrets guy?

1/9/2025, 1:30:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Congratulations to Don C, the new King of Memphis Jookin. #memphis

1/9/2025, 1:21:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first part has nothing to do with the second. If a friend called for help, that would explain why he was driving around, but he was driving around for reasons unexplained and irrelevant. I guess it's one way to be greatest hero and greatest victim all in the same day.

31/8/2025, 8:32:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll add that being a medical professional should be a precondition, but of course the psychos in charge are probably worried about "shedding," a paranoid concept I wish I'd forgotten about.

31/8/2025, 8:17:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw "overweight/obese" is a criteria on my usual pharmacy's website. 2/3's of Americans then qualify without any additional skullduggery.

31/8/2025, 8:15:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love the lies about his golf prowess... "the way we measure manliness is by golf ability!"

31/8/2025, 7:51:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no money in telling people to buy kale.

31/8/2025, 7:39:14 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why do they bother bringing on a fascist dip wad who lies and must be corrected? I know, I know...

31/8/2025, 7:21:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not enough for an invasion, so I assume it's an expression of half-baked aggression.

31/8/2025, 2:32:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's like curing something with one pill versus managing it with a daily dose, there's more money in illegally holding in prison.

30/8/2025, 7:36:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our peach tree was very productive, farmer at the market today said his peach trees did very well, but it was a bad year for tomatoes, locally.

30/8/2025, 7:05:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had a long talk at the Memphis Farmer's Market with our favorite Mississippi farmer about how he saves melon seeds, hybridizes, how flavor changes as they sit in the field, watermelon's historic roots next to the Dead Sea, and his tastiest variety which was prone to cracking, so he quit growing it.

30/8/2025, 4:55:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's better than my idea to Salieri him.

30/8/2025, 2:58:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ugh, and here in TN we can't just pop over a border for medicine.

30/8/2025, 2:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good trolling too, people can Salieri him.

30/8/2025, 1:17:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta make exceptions to the #nokings rule.

Monarch butterfly in a pasture
30/8/2025, 12:59:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A.Cooper (@shockingsounds.bsky.social) reply parent

great post

29/8/2025, 10:06:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sir, I say with tears on my eyes, this the greatest thing anyone has ever said.

29/8/2025, 8:27:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She ought to be dancing in the middle of the road swinging a chainsaw around.

29/8/2025, 8:26:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Adjust their morals," hmm, wonder how she defines morals.

29/8/2025, 5:17:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A.Cooper (@shockingsounds.bsky.social) reply parent

A good military history is "How The North Won", until I read it, I just saw the Civil War as a bunch of disconnected battles.

29/8/2025, 4:07:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes to both, goodness, use Google. They all voted against the budget funding ICE. These are not secrets.

29/8/2025, 2:38:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The government's denying entry to foreign travelers with pictures of balloon head Vance on their phones, not sure he's the sense of humor guy.

29/8/2025, 12:01:23 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven't seen what our submarines look like in a while, it'll be interesting to see them go down the street.

28/8/2025, 11:51:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Krugman's essay today is that the market has a bad record for anticipating big problems like that. Of course, if have thr money to bet, know how to make the bet, and time it perfectly... good for you, just have to wisdom to quietly retire.

28/8/2025, 11:49:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whenever I see people propose better education to save the country, I shudder, because values matter more than education. We need to spend more as a society on education, yes, but presenting everyone with the perfect set of facts won't necessarily get you the support you think it will.

28/8/2025, 11:02:17 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kennedy's idiocy explains the appeal of conspiracy theorists -- RFK has secret knowledge and feels so much smarter than actual doctors, diagnosing children at a glance!

28/8/2025, 10:32:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The movie is on YouTube, btw

28/8/2025, 10:28:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If "getting toughed" worked, we'd know by now.

28/8/2025, 10:19:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He needs to grapple with the world as it is, not some imaginary place he'd like to live in.

28/8/2025, 5:30:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rep Scalise was shot and nearly died, he became more extreme on guns. We need different people in government.

28/8/2025, 5:04:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The way things are, I'd crawl over broken glass to vote against him in the primary, but for him in the general if, god forbid, he wins. Whatever the weaknesses of the 2028 D nominee, those groups/categories/issues would be better off with the worst D president in 2029 than if this continues.

28/8/2025, 4:48:14 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Totally shameful

28/8/2025, 4:30:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Plenty of kids are home-schooled around guns (and when something tragic happens, it isn't national news), but that's going to be up to the parents.

28/8/2025, 3:48:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, I like to tell grown kids how cool their dad or mom is :)

28/8/2025, 12:29:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Always with the scenarios, Kennedy

28/8/2025, 3:15:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Schumer and Jeffries have certain skills useful in normal times, this being one of them. Are these normal times? Views differ.

27/8/2025, 7:28:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His brother is a good singer, the Eagles linemen put out an album a few years ago.

27/8/2025, 6:30:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably more accurate to say "some shipments", only those of a certain value are affected, you could still send letters, for example.

27/8/2025, 5:58:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think the best way is to mock/insult the masked Feds (whatever they are) and convince the NG to swing their weapons around should it come to that.

27/8/2025, 5:44:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In May, my wife and son wound up at Union Station at 2am (flights were all screwed up, thanks, Duffy), took a bus to Penn Station, at no point in the story was she worried about anything other the travel problems.

27/8/2025, 2:26:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LLMs are tools, but will they be like screwdrivers or snap ring pliers?

26/8/2025, 9:53:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used the Teams transcription feature once, and was horrified with how my spoken words looked on the screen, never again.

26/8/2025, 8:14:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When the Patriot Act passed and the 2A cowards said nothing, that confirmed to me they want the government to oppress certain people.

26/8/2025, 8:12:08 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree with essay, a movie set in an office is going to need simplification and spice, but afterwards, it's always interesting to learn where the movie did so.

26/8/2025, 5:27:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jon Lovitz was apparently upset Dukakis lost solely for the same reason.

26/8/2025, 4:02:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seems like the textbook definition!

25/8/2025, 11:37:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We'll never figure out which political party nominated him, a perpetual mystery.

25/8/2025, 11:05:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Were people supposed "roll coal" to the scavenger hunt, or get around some other way? What clues would that give as to his priorities, and who are some of the people that benefit from that?

25/8/2025, 1:32:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is a painful thing I didn't want to get, so yes, most definitely.

25/8/2025, 1:29:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shame we'll never figure out who nominated Mamdami.

25/8/2025, 1:26:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pure nihilism.

24/8/2025, 2:41:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But, but, don't you want to incentify him to do the right thing for America? He won't do it for free, after all.

24/8/2025, 2:46:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Last time I rode, this June, only bad thing was my nephews seemed determined to touch every surface of the (reasonably clean) subway car with every skin cell on their hands and arms. I brought them back to my sister and asked her to dip them in sanitizer.

24/8/2025, 2:34:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven't seen anything explaining what law allows the 10% "gift" of Intel. Or, do we just do what Trump says on social media now? Remember, Congress passed a law allowing the government to save the car companies.

23/8/2025, 2:11:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need firearms to fight homelessness?

22/8/2025, 4:40:56 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's every day with these guys.

22/8/2025, 4:35:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To paraphrase the airplane passenger at the end of The Limey, "coming back home is as nice as going away."

22/8/2025, 4:13:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profits have been dropping, so they have to do something. The new logo seems neither modern nor does it appeal to home-style food or nostalgia, so it seems like a bad move for them. How it's political, I have no idea.

22/8/2025, 2:38:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The industry is always short drivers (they could try paying more!). I guess if we're throwing the pandemic down the memory hole, might as well forget logistics too.

22/8/2025, 2:24:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It seems like a dumb change, I could've done it on PowerPoint, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to be political.

22/8/2025, 12:51:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AI, it'll bring us all of our hopes and desires, except for our dream of getting Musk to stop talking.

21/8/2025, 5:34:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going up, going all the way down, briefly pausing, and back up is tough. I can see for ego reasons why people do the rapid-fire, 75% down style.

21/8/2025, 5:19:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've sold several Brooklyn Bridges to different people who thought MAHA was making the country healthier.

21/8/2025, 1:25:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mocking and insulting the various agents is the right move, and convincing the National Guardspeople they need to arrest the people giving them illegal orders is the way to go.

20/8/2025, 11:00:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?

20/8/2025, 10:57:03 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not that the threat of nuclear annihilation was great,but the Cold War kept the West's rich in check because they felt they needed to keep people happy.

20/8/2025, 10:46:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Untrained "law" enforcement, they're hoping to get them shooting at people to escalate.

20/8/2025, 6:43:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Turns out "not life-threatenly hot" is still pretty hot. #memphis

20/8/2025, 4:04:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Truckers listen to a lot of RW radio, that's what's on, getting every union member to vote their interests would require a lot of changes to the media.

19/8/2025, 1:07:28 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reeves is about as racist as they come.

18/8/2025, 8:45:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm picturing the snooty guy in "Goodwill Hunting" who gets told off.

17/8/2025, 8:44:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's good to let other people work out the kinks in new products.

17/8/2025, 7:34:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just bought Cellini's autobiography, something tells me I should only read it once.

17/8/2025, 4:49:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My state representative is Justin Pearson. He speaks with passion and moral clarity. I merely have the audacity to hope that the resistance to Trump is led in part by someone as good as a 30 year old who has only been in politics for a few years.

17/8/2025, 2:34:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suppose NYT subscribers need to know what credulous hacks are thinking!?!

17/8/2025, 1:38:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What combination of prescription and non-prescription drugs do you have to be on to print something like that?

17/8/2025, 1:36:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the moment the D's need a wartime consigliare, a fighter, in both congressional leadership roles. For example, Gov Newsom isn't exactly trustworthy, but his words and deeds are meeting the moment.

17/8/2025, 1:34:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's just so mealy-mouthed.

16/8/2025, 10:44:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Being awful is the carrot!

16/8/2025, 10:43:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think in the modern era, the leader has to give a better performance than Jeffries does, because while the parliamentary stuff is very important (and the D's usually outperform the R's), there's an important public-facing aspect. Pelosi wasn't great it, but she was better than Jeffries.

16/8/2025, 9:49:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Takes a room temperature IQ to manipulate this cretin.

16/8/2025, 2:57:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beat case result, then, actually

16/8/2025, 12:39:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Southern Indiana has plenty of examples.

15/8/2025, 6:36:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need fuel for the furnace!

15/8/2025, 6:03:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it weren't for my dog, I'd have never seen two ultralights this morning.

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15/8/2025, 5:58:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow, what a bunch of scaredy cats, weapons, helmets, give me a break.

15/8/2025, 12:49:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait 'til they hear about viruses!

14/8/2025, 5:17:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's how the pandemic loosened up corporate attitudes about price increases. Used to be, they'd run over their grandmothers rather than raise prices, but the post-pandemic inflation made them realize that if everyone's raising prices, they might as well too.

14/8/2025, 4:28:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Where does NASA want to put a nuclear power plant" was the question at trivia night, and the whole room laughed when answer was given as "the moon".

14/8/2025, 4:25:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Bad Exponent

14/8/2025, 2:40:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What does he wear when he wrestles Teamsters? Seat belt, singlet, slacks, shorts, slip?

14/8/2025, 2:17:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Creepy video, but people might not believe it otherwise.

13/8/2025, 10:41:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We just had a president who didn't stick himself into every story, but no, let's destroy the country, we're bored.

13/8/2025, 10:39:33 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That guy sounds like a moron.

13/8/2025, 10:37:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Minutekids

13/8/2025, 10:34:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know if it's related, but a former coworker left a company to get a MS at Georgia Tech, then reapplied after graduation, and was rejected for misspelling the company's name.

13/8/2025, 9:20:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needless to say, cuts don't necessarily mean savings, we the people are getting fewer services.

13/8/2025, 9:17:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Zeldin must have breathed too much CO2 for a long enough time to suffer brain damage.

13/8/2025, 9:13:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view